The following essay will focus on the Spanish Civil War and will attempt to outline a primary single cause of this bloody conflict that occurred in Spain. This conflict has generated a considerable amount of books and due to it's extreme significance , it has what we call a literary epitaph which puts it on par with the Second World War. This demonstrates the extent of this conflict and that is why I sought interest to study this conflict in more detail and outline the primary cause of this battle between the right and left wing parties which is the liberal Republic-socialist government who failed in their pursuit of reformation and accentuated the class struggle in Spain. It was surprisingly above all a great international battleground of fascism and communism with all its proponents and opponents. Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin and Trotsky all had substantial parts in the Spanish drama. " The Spanish civil war is burne

"The civil war of 1936-9 represented the ultimate expression of the attempts by reactionary elements in Spanish politics to crush any reform that might threaten their privileged position" (Preston, P, 1986)

Thomas, H, 1961. " The Spanish Civil War". Eyre and Spottiswoode Publishers: London

During the same season, high officers of the Army were planning a coup which was launched on July 18. However, neither the liberal middle class nor the industrial working class nor a large proportion of the peasantry would accept the military government on this occasion. Within a few days, the unsuccessful coup had been transformed into the thirty three month struggle known to the world as the Spanish Civil War. Like all Revolutionary upheavals, the Spanish Civil War was very differently interpreted by different sorts of participants. Middle class liberals thought of themselves as defending the civilian parliamentary regime against the threat of military dictatorship. Anti-clericals fought to destroy the institutional power of the Catholic Church. Anarchist peasants and factory workers saw an opportunity to establish a proletarian-controlled economy. It is thus within this context that the Spanish Civil war took place and this was the main cause - a class struggle for power (Herr, R, 1974).

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